Meeting the Needs of Individual Students

Mentorship by Physician-Scientists

MSTP MD/PhD Program

The Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) funded MD/PhD program offers exceptional training opportunities for those interested in pursuing a career as a physician/scientist. It combines the curriculum of the School of Medicine (SOM) and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) to provide a structured foundation of diverse topics, with the flexibility necessary to meet the needs of the individual student.

LabTV: The Human Faces of Medical Research

MD/PhD Students take to Zoom to host Physician Scientist Forums - VIRTUALLY!

MD/PhD students collaborate with expert faculty to discuss patient cases to educate but also to stimulate new research ideas, particularly those focused on non-bench research that might be appropriate to pursue during this time of social distancing.

UMMS COVID-19 Forum - Remdesivir

This Forum focuses on remdesivir — currently a very scarce but potentially effective treatment for COVID-19 — to discuss the ethical, social, and policy implications of resource allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

UMMS COVID-19 Forum - Hypertension & Diabetes

This Forum focuses on co-morbidities that greatly increase the lethality of COVID-19, including Hypertension and Diabetes. We review what is known about COVID-19 pathology and basic biology, and discuss what mechanisms could explain clinical and epidemiological observations.

UMMS COVID-19 Forum - Epidemiology, Pathology & Biology

This Forum features brief highlights summarizing what is known about COVID-19, including the epidemiology, pathology, and biology of coronavirus, as well as research on COVID-19 that is currently being conducted at UMMS.

Director's Message

Our MD-PhD program (MSTP) offers exceptional training opportunities for future physician scientists in areas ranging from molecular principles to human population health policy, within the uniquely collaborative and successful environment of the UMass Medical School.

As medical professionals are working to care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and critical supplies of protective gear are running low, students in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Medical School produced nearly 130 gallons of hand sanitizer to help sustain local hospitals.

Third-year medical students at UMass Medical School are getting real-time lessons in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic—a topic not covered in medical textbooks—through an innovative online pandemic curriculum.